More realistic flashlight.

[lxFirebal69xl]

I was looking into improving the already implemented flashlight, but unfortunately my limited coding knowledge made me stuck pretty quickly, so here was my idea.

 

 

Have a flashlight model be a child of the fpsplayer (so it follows the mouses movement), line it up so it looks good, make a spotlight coming out of it, and then implement Hankinator's battery script to work with the new spotlight.

 

Battery script:

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/12783-flashlight-battery-tutorial/page__hl__flashlight

 

 

Problem is, I can't really figure out how to make it so that when the player presses F, the new spotlight appears and not the current one, and also how to implement the battery part of the code to work with it. (Since the battery script interacts with the player and not a child of the player)

 

Any guidance would be extremely helpful! Thanks!

[martyj]

Could you post some of your code?

 

Assuming you have an instance of a SpotLight you can hide and show it with the Hide(), Show() functions.

 

Psudocode:

function PlayerUpdate()
{
if window->KeyHit(Key::F)
{
   if splotLight->Hidden()
   {
    splotLight->Show()
   }
   else
   {
    splotLight->Hide();
   }
}
}